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Boney and Talley. The Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day
1 print : etching with aquatint, hand colored. | Cartoon showing interior of a slaughterhouse, with Napoleon as the butcher, holding cleaver and knife. He is being restrained by Talleyrand. Shown are animals and bodies of animals representing Germany, Italy, Prussia, Russia, England, Switzerland, Spain, and Holland.

Contributor:
Gillray, James

Date:1803

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The genius of France nursing her darling
1 print : engraving, color. | Cartoon showing France, a savage virago, dandling a tiny Napoleon seated on her hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: ... Beside her are her spear, dripping blood, and shield, with the bleeding head of Louis...

The blessed effects of venality
1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows a man, possibly George III, chopping a leg "Commons" of a three-legged stool, "Lords" and "Privy Council" being the other two legs, which may represent the Parliament and its openness to corruption, especially in regards to its policies toward the American colonies; in the foreground, on the left, Britannia has fallen into a slumber, a...

Date:1776

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The Englishman in Paris
1 print : etching. | Print shows an Englishman, only recently arrived, still wearing his hat, standing just inside the entrance of the home of a Frenchman at dinner time. He is eating the goose which he has taken off the serving platter on its way to a table around which sit two men and a woman who display varying degrees of coiffured hair....

Date:1777

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The present state of Great Britain
1 print : etching. | Print shows a man representing Great Britain, half-asleep, holding a staff topped with a liberty cap which a Native, representing America, is attempting to remove; a Dutchman on his knees before Great Britain is attempting to pick Great Britain's purse; a Scotsman with his left arm over the shoulders of Great Britain and holding the staff with his left...

Date:1779

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Le Destin molestant les Anglois
1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows the Comte d'Estaing presenting a palm frond to America, a Native wearing feathered headdress and skirt and holding a staff topped with a liberty cap and who is seated on a throne of bales and barrels of produce destined for France; above the scene Fame trumpets the success of d'Estaing who is shown wearing armor...

Date:1779

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John Bulls alternative
1 print : etching. | Print shows John Bull (representing England) standing on his toes on a rock, a rope around his neck and tied to a limb above him; on the right, across a body of water (probably representing the English Channel) stands a Frenchman holding a leek which he offers to John Bull.

The state cooks making peace-porridge
1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows several British ministers, Keppel, Fox, Richmond, Conway, and others, preparing a porridge of peace to offer Holland, France, and Spain, and separately to a Native wearing a feathered headdress and skirt, representing America, who hesitates, refusing to accept until seeing how palatable to her European allies.

L--d Shel--, begging Monsieur to make piss or p--e
1 print : etching. | Print shows Lord Shelburne holding a chamber pot up to a Frenchman, saying "Monsieur, be so obliging as to make piss with us." The Frenchman is kicking the pot, saying, "By the House of Bourbon, with the war we'll go on."

Frontispiece to Reflections on the French revolution
1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Print shows Edmund Burke on bended knee as though proposing to a vision which appears before him of Marie Antoinette, while a cherub touches his head with a firebrand emitting the sparks of romance.

Date:1790

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The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly
1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publisher of Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution" which hangs from the horn of the saddle. The head of the donkey has a human face and wears...

Date:1790

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Don Dismallo running the literary gantlet
1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Print shows Edmund Burke in fools dress receiving lashes on his bare back as he runs a gauntlet of his peers which also includes Justice holding a sword, and Liberty, with staff topped with a liberty cap, who has turned her back on Burke and stands with J.F.X. Whyte, an old prisoner from the Bastille who carries a...

The doctor indulged with his favorite scene
1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Cartoon shows cleric Dr. Richard Price, kneeling on a crown with a demon on his back, peering through a peep-hole into the royal bedroom at Versailles, watching ruffians destroy the Queen's bed and bedroom in search of her; Queen Marie Antoinette is seen fleeing down a staircase.

French liberty - British slavery
1 print : etching, color. | A design in two compartments. On the left is a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before an open hearth ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. He is rejoicing. On the right is an immensely fat Englishman dining well, who is complaining about taxation and starvation.

Contributor:
Gillray, James

Date:1792

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French happiness - English misery
1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Print shows, on the left, four ragged and starving sansculottes fighting over a frog, a cat has dropped dead at their feet, and scenes of death in the background; on the right, a scene in an English tavern with a table laden with food and four men overeating, a fat dog lies on the floor, and a cat...